LASH, Israel George, a Representative from North Carolina;
born in Bethania, Forsyth County, N.C., August 18, 1810;
attended the common schools and the local academy in his native city;
engaged in mercantile pursuits and subsequently became a cigar manufacturer;
also engaged in banking in Salem, N.C.;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1868;
upon the readmission of the State of North Carolina to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress;
reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from July 20, 1868, to March 4, 1871;
was not a candidate for renomination in 1870;
again engaged in banking in Salem (now Winston-Salem) N.C., until his death there on April 1, 1878;
interment in the Moravian Cemetery, Bethania, N.C.